I go to bed every night and I dream a dream. Let me tell you about this dream. It's about a world -- a world of torn-down walls. It's a world where differences are celebrated, not laughed at or discarded. I dream a dream of dreamers like myself. It's foolhardy perhaps, but I dream it still. I speak not of racial or religious divides, or of uniting our great country. No. I'm talking about getting a comic book movie a Best Picture nomination. And that movie, of course, is The Dark mutha-bleepin' Knight.

Yeah, its chances of a Best Picture nomination are somewhere between nil and zero. I understand that. It's a comic book movie. The first thing Academy members tend to do with movies like this is scoot away in disgust, searching their pockets for Best Sound or Visual Effects ballots to toss so the movie will just shut up and go away. So The Dark Knight's chances -- whether or not it's the best movie of the year (so far) -- are squadoosh. It's a product of its birth. It isn't royalty. It's low-breeding. It's Ephialtes. It's a comic book movie. And that pretty much shuts the door right there. And with the Academy and the way people within the Academy have been trained to view movies they deem Oscar-worthy, that's enough.

We can whine about how good the writing and performances are. We can idolize the narrative development and camera work by Christopher Nolan all day. We can go on and on about how intelligent and ambitious a film it is. But it doesn't change the fact that the movie is in a bastard genre. It doesn't matter that its a much, much better movie than, say, Atonement (which I quite liked). It just would be too outside-the-box to nominate a movie like The Dark Knight, masterpiece of the genre or not. We need to just accept these realities and not bother trying to change anything. Injustice is a way of life and all that jazz.

And in the end, it's okay. Life moves on. And when I go to bed at night. I can dream of that world again.

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